Grace is Gone Trailer

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

  Tim Burton makes dream movies. Stephen Sondheim writes musicals. It is hard to think of two more optimistic genres of popular art, or of two popular artists who have so methodically subvert that optimism. Mr. Sondheim has always gravitated toward the discord lurk in summable tunes, and has threaded his song-and-dance spectaculars with subtexts [...]

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Review Of There Will Be Blood

  “There Will Be Blood,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s heroic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a story of greed and envy of biblical proportions — echoing with Old Testament sound and fury [...]

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Review Of The Killing of John Lennon

Those are the arrogant words of John Lennon’s killer, Mark David Chapman (Jonas Ball), who shot Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980, in front of his home at the Dakota, the Manhattan apartment complex at 72nd Street and Central Park West. Everything Mr. Chapman says in “The Killing of John Lennon,” devastating re-enactment of events leading [...]

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Review for Movie “Juno”

Story &Direction Even if you recognize nothing of Juno going in, it’s easy to pick up on the fact that the movie’s voice is unlike any you’ve heard in a while—it’s totally fresh, in every sense of the word. That’s because a brand new writer, Diablo Cody, and a new-ish director, Jason Reitman (Thank You [...]

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